Key result
Salt intake below 6 g linked to increased mortality.
Why the study?
Public recommendations continue to advise lowering salt intake below 6 g based on assumed blood pressure effects and no side effects, despite recent cohort studies associating salt intake below 6 g with increased mortality.
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Comparison
Low sodium diet vs high sodium diet
Questions safety of salt intake below 6 g; leaves open causal confirmation in randomized trials.
Recent cohort studies show that salt intake below 6 g is associated with increased mortality. These findings have not changed public recommendations to lower salt intake below 6 g, which are based on assumed blood pressure (BP) e ects and no side-e ects.
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Graudal et al. (2020) studied this question. Salt intake below 6 g is associated with increased mortality in recent cohort studies.
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